park for a space of near two miles, when it happily breaks upon the eye, in different points of view, emulous as it were to enrich this luxuriant scene. WE fhall now quit the internal part of the castle, and, to give a more full idea of its fituation, attempt a general view of its grand fouth and weft fronts, as they appear from the new bridge before mentioned. Here the extent of this noble building is viewed in its utmoft perfection. The judicious alterations that have been, and are still making to the windows, in the fouthern front, by giving them a Gothic form, adds much to their picturesque appearance; and Guy's ftately tower, although its immenfe rocky base is loft to the eye in that point of view, is yet an object highly worthy of admiration. This view, taken altogether, though on a small fcale, will yet, I flatter myself, give a faithful picture of this prin cipal ornament of our Avon, on whose delightful banks we fhall for a fhort time fufpend our comments, to make fome curfory observations on the antient town of Warwick, which stands on a rocky eminence, and in a dry and fertile foil. Dugdale fays, "it was the chiefeft "town of these parts, and whereof the "whole county upon the first division of "these realms into fhires took its name, "so may it juftly glory in its fituation beyond any other." This town contains many objects that render it worthy notice, the first of these is, pre-eminently, the Lady's Chapel, in the church of Saint Mary; which is one of the most beautiful specimens of the rich Gothic ftyle I remember to have feen. We are forry to add, that in a recent repair made to this once venerable building, fo much attention has been paid to its former gilding, and gaudy decorations, that it now glares fo much on the eye as to pro duce duce a difgufting effect. We are not however without a hope that it may one day be restored to its primitive fimplicity and elegance. In this chapel are fome fplendid monuments, particularly one in the centre, of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; who lies on a tomb of marble. The figure is of brafs, double gilt, and is furrounded by many images in the fame metal. On a monument erected in this chapel, to the memory of a lady Leicefter, who died on the morning of a Christmas day in 1634, are fome lines which from the fingularity of their style may not be thought unworthy tranfcribing. This lady's qualities according to Mafter Gervas Clifton the Poet's account, were really wonderful, fhe not only caft cannon, but multiplied the heavenly host, in courtly phrase we can say no lefs, that glitter around the throne, and was |